Oranges well washed and scalded with boiling water. Sift flour, anise seeds grind in a mortar, dry yeast dissolve in 5-6 tbsp of warm water. To the flour, add anise, salt, sugar, the zest of two oranges, pour the dissolved yeast, 9-10 tbsp of warm water and extract of orange blossom* orange Blossom water or orange blossom - a rare guest in our stores, you can buy it in major supermarkets and stores like "Indian spices". If you didn't find it, can increase the amount of zest (don't forget to refill the missing amount of liquid water) or added to the dough orange liqueur.

A little stir the dough and pour in the olive oil.

Knead the dough by hand or with the help of HP. The dough will be quite steep, but soft. Cover the bowl with the dough with foil and put in a warm place to rise for 1.5 hours.

The dough should increase about threefold. Ebonite it and split it into 4 parts

From each part we will make 4 different shapes of donuts. This is the most common variant is a round donut, large slits which are made by using a wooden spoon, and a small in the center of the narrow side of the handle of the same blade.

The second option is oval donut with 3-4 oblique slits.

Another option oval donuts, which resembles carved leaf monstera - the length of the oval cut three like dotted lines, then to the right and to the left of them make a few more cuts, the cake is a little stretch to "dashes" sold

And last, in the form of a spike or leaf. Slots it is better to make on a baking tray lined with parchment, so that when the transfer does not wrinkle pattern. To holes in the finished product was pronounced, the slots stretch a little bit. Bake the muffins for 20 minutes Т180С. For the gloss immediately after baking brush them with sugar water (about 1 tbsp sugar 4-5 tbsp water)